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THE BATTALION Thursday, September 13, 1962 College Station, Texas Page 7 ..All Appointed To Their Positions During Summer i m 1 i CLARK C. MUNROE ... Starkey Air Force Col. James F. Starkey ias arrived to assume the position if Professor of Air Science. He will be responsible for the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps program. Starkey, a veteran of 25 years, tomes from Air Force Headquar ters in Washington, where he served as chief of the Mission Analysis Division of the Director ate of Status Analysis. He succeeds Col. Charles E. Gregory, who retired from the Air Force and service at A&M June Starkey entered the Air Force 1937 as a flying cadet and re ceived his wings and commission at Kelly Field in October, 1938. is service career includes World War II bomber operations, service in several of the atomic tests dur ing the 1950s, assignment to the Air Force’s Cambridge Research Center and the service in Wash ington. He attended the British Army Staff College after World War II, and in August of 1948 joined the 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Group to command the 7th Geo- ’’detic Squadron. I ★ ★ ★ ... Parsons Walter H. Parsons Jr., just re tired as a colonel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has returned to his alma mater to assume the post of superintendent of buildings and college utilities. He graduated from A & M in 1930 with a Bachelor of Science SB WALTER H. PARSONS JR. COL. JAMES F. STARKEY DR. CHARLES F. SQUIRE degree in architectural (structur al) engineering. The Parsons family has moved to the Bryan-College Station area from El Paso, where he served as the Center Engineer of the vast Army Air Defense Center. This area is familiar to Parsons for in 1948-51 he served as Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics and was the senior officer of the Corps of En gineers. Also, three of their five sons have attended the college. Parsons will carry the immedi ate responsibility of superintend ing the buildings and college utili ties aspects of the physical plant program. Parsons’ background in the oil industry was put to use in 1943- 44 in one of his assignments. He organized and directed construc tion of an oil refinery and ap proximately 1,000 miles of pipe lines and pump stations in the Yukon Territory, Canada, and then organized and directed the operation of an even larger oil operation in the Northwest Terri tory of Canada. He served with the Seventh U.S. Army in Germany in 1951-54, fol lowing his assignment here. ★ ★ ★ ... Squire Dr. Charles F. Squire, noted contributor to research in low- temperature physics, has been ap pointed associate dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. The former research director for Hamilton Standard Division of United Aircraft Corp. assumed his new post Sept. 1. “Squire’s particular assignment as associate dean will be in the field of research and development in the physical sciences,” Dean Frank W. R. Hubert said. “He will also serve as a professor of physics.” Hubert said Squire will repre sent the School of Arts and Sciences in working with other administrative officers in encour aging and stimulating the re search program in the physical sciences. Dr. G. W. Schlesselman will con tinue as associate dean of Arts and Sciences for student academic programs. Squire earned his Ph.D. degree in chemical physics at Johns Hop kins University in 1937 and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Uni versity of Paris in 1937 r 38-. Before joining the United Air craft Corp. in I960, he was a pro fessor of physics at Rice Univer sity from 1947 to 1960. His principal fields of teaching in physics have been . graduate studies in low temperature phys ics, statistical mechanics and ther modynamics, optics, vibration and sound and spectroscopy. ★ ★ ★ ... Sul tie Dr. Andrew D. Suttle Jr., for mer director of the Mississippi Industrial and Technological Re search Commission, has been named vice president for research here. Suttle’s principal areas of re search interests include the appli cation of the techniques of radio chemistry to refining problems and the initiation and development of a broad program in radiation chemistry. He also has worked on the application of nuclear reactors for chemical processing. He is considered an authority on certain phases of underground nuclear detonations. Most recently his interest has been in the appli cation of prompt nuclear devices as sources of energy for various purposes. A native of West Point, Miss., the 36-year-old research scientist was graduated with highest hon ors from Mississippi State Uni versity in 1944. From 1949 to 1952 he studied at the University of Chicago under an Atomic Energy Commission fellowship. Suttle’s doctoral dissertation was directed by Dr. W. F. Libby, Noble Prize winning physicist and a member of the AEC, and Prof. Maria G. Mayer. His dissertation was titled “Rou tine Method of Beta Assay and Beta Decay Systematics of the Long-Lived Natural Beta Emit ters.” The author of four scientific ar ticles, Suttle is the inventor or co-inventor of approximately 22 patents or patent applications in the United States and Britain. * * * ... Wainerdi Dr. Richard E. "VVa:m er cH has been named associate dean of en gineering, Fred J. Benson, dean of engineering 1 , has announced. Wainerdi, who has been assist ant to the engineering dean since 1959, succeeds Charles Crawford YOU GOTTA BUY OMETHING OME PLACE OME TIME OME HOW EE OLE LOU BEFORE YOU DO!! LOUPOT'S For Your Convenience We Will Be Open After 6:00 DR. A. D. SUTTLE JR. who retired as associate dean Aug. 31 to devote his efforts teaching mechanical engineering. Crawford has been on the A&M faculty since 1919. Benson said Wainerdi will also continue as head of the Activation Analysis Research Laboratory, a facility of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. Wainerdi came to A&M in 1957 as an associate professor of nu clear and petroleum engineering. Previously he was co-ordinator of nuclear activities for Dresser In dustries, Dallas. Last year he was named professor of engineering science. A native of New York City, he was graduated in 1952 from the University of Oklahoma, receiving a B.S. degree in petroleum engi neering. He earned his M.S. degree in DR. R. E. WAINERDI engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Penn State in 1958. He was one of a few graduate students selected in 1954 to attend the radioisotope handling course at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies. The following year he attended the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology. ★ ★ ★ ... Whitmore Dr. Frank C. Whitmore has been named coordinator for National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration Affairs and Programs here, President Earl Rudder has announced. Whitmore, a research physicist, has returned to A&M from Pasa dena, Calif., where he was associ ated with the physics division of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, DR. FRANK C. WHITMORE California Institute of Technology. He formerly was on the physics faculty. Chief purpose of the new post is to assist in setting up academic and research programs helpful to the needs of NASA, Rudder said. The NASA Coordinator’s Office will be administered under the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. “His duties will include assist ing members of the faculty and staff in any way possible to ex plore areas of interest to NASA- leading to research proposals and projects,” Rudder added. A native of Baltimore, Md.y Whitmore has an A.B. degree from Gettysburg College and an M.S. degree in physics at the Univer sity of Delaware. He came to Ay&M in 1951 and received his doc torate in physics here in 1960. mm COLLEGE STATION STATE BANK A HOME OWNED BANK, SERVING THE COLLEGE STATION AREA It’s no trick at all to start a Checking Account COMPLETE BANKING FACILITIES 4% Interest Paid On 1 Year Deposits and On Depisits Less Than 1 Year MEMBER- FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION North Gate YT 6-8751 The Most At Lou's Trading Post